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  Encyclopedia: Alan King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004), born Irwin Alan Kniberg, was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants.
King played small roles in movies in the 1950s, but disliked playing stereotypical roles that he described as "always the sergeant from Brooklyn named Kowalski." [1] King eventually expanded his range and made a name for himself playing gangsters in five movies, including Cats Eye and The Anderson Tapes.
King also became a regular guest host for the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, hosted the Oscars in 1972, and was the MC for President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
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 Alan King
Alan King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg in New York City on December 26, 1927, the youngest of eight children.
He is the founder of the Alan King Diagnostic Medical Center in Jerusalem, he started a scholarship for American students at Hebrew University, he is an advocate for the Nassau Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children, and he is on the Board of Trustees at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
King has also founded a program called Laugh Well, which grew out of his own experiences with oral cancer, and is an attempt to use laughter to help hospital patients who are trying to overcome their own fears.
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 Celia's World - Alan Roy King Ph.D.
Alan was very young when we started to call him "the absent-minded professor." It may have been wrong to label him, but he looked and acted the part, even at his tender age, and we meant it as a compliment.
Alan was still a loner by choice, not finding much in common with other youngsters of his own age and certainly not with his brother.
Alan said all this in a calm, cultured, pleasant English voice, with maybe a trace of a Continental European inflection (which he would probably deny and I don’t think he is aware of).
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 1927  Alan King  2004 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
King was an unabashed exemplar of Jewish comedy, a through-and-through New Yorker whose sensibility, delivery – and accent – never migrated far from their Brooklyn roots.
King was a prolific nightclub performer and renowned toastmaster who became a member of the Friars Club in 1945 – shortly after he opened for Frank Sinatra and shortly before doing the same, at the Palace Theater, for Judy Garland.
Alan King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg, on Dec. 26, 1927, in Brooklyn.
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 Comedian Alan King dead at 76 - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg Dec. 26, 1927, in Brooklyn.
Over the years, King shared stages with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 56 times, emceed President John F. Kennedy's inaugural party, hosted the 1972 Academy awards, appeared in 29 films, shot an HBO special, founded a pro tennis tournament and wrote five books.
King's charity work included fund-raising for the Nassau Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children on Long Island; his establishment of a chair in dramatic arts at Brandeis University; and the founding of the Alan King Diagnostic Medical Center in Jerusalem.
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 ALAN KING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
King brach die Schule ab um sein komödiantisches Talent zu schulen.
Der Philantroph Alan King schrieb außerdem einige Bücher, produzierte Filme und war auch häufig als Schauspieler zu sehen.
King, der sein Leben lang Zigarren rauchte, starb am 9.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Alan King, 76; comedian made annoyances of life laughable
King, who was also host of the New York Friars Club's celebrity roasts, which had recently returned as a staple on television's Comedy Central, died of lung cancer at a Manhattan hospital.
King, who until then had been using worn out one-liners, found his new material at home, after his wife persuaded him to forsake his native Manhattan, believing the suburban atmosphere of the Forest Hills sections of Queens would provide a better environment for their children.
King was at the height of his career, he faced one son's drug addiction and said he realized that he had neglected his family.
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 Egobrowser: Alan King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King has had many lives – a musician, a boxer, a Catskill tummler, a headlining comedian, a Broadway and Hollywood actor, a best-selling author, a.
Alan King married to Sheila (nee Rawson) last know address fairfield road Oadby, Alan was a pupil at Clarks College, Saxby.
Alan King was at the bar at Bice on East 54th Street right after it opened.
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 FilmStew.com • Alan King Dead at 76
Multihyphenate Alan King, known for his sharp one-liners and having a perpetually cigar hanging out of his mouth, died Sunday night at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
King's work took him to the stage as well as he appeared on Broadway in the shows Guys and Dolls and The Impossible Years, most recently starring in the Off Broadway play Mr.
King served as the host for the New York Friars Club's celebrity roasts, and in 1961 was the host for part of the inaugural party for President Kennedy.
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 ALAN KING, 1927-2004 / Comedian with cranky take on life / Embodiment of old-school Jewish humor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King, the dyspeptic wisecracker whose withering stare, Brooklyn accent and mockery of modern American life made him a comic favorite for six decades, died Sunday at a hospital in New York.
King, who also was host of the New York Friars Club's celebrity roasts, which had recently returned as a staple on television's Comedy Central, died at a Manhattan hospital, said a son, Robert King.
King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg in a tough part of Brooklyn, where he learned to use his mouth as a weapon.
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 obitpage.com :: great obits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
King produced for film and television as well and is credited with, among others, the movies "Cattle Annie and Little Britches" and "Wolfen" in 1981 and the TV series "The Corner Bar" in 1972 and "The College of Comedy with Alan King" in 1997.
King was also a hit on Broadway as flashy gambler Nathan Detroit in a 1965 revival of "Guys and Dolls" and subsequently as a psychiatrist father in "The Impossible Years." He co-produced major Broadway shows including "The Lion in Winter" and "Dinner at Eight."
King said he learned by watching a young Danny Thomas that he must talk to his audience rather than "at 'em, around 'em and over 'em" as he had been doing.
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 IOnOne art | painting | Alan King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King is an experienced artist who turned his attention to the use of digital mediums to achieve his artistic vision.
Alan King's art is defined by his creation of intoxicating landscape compositions.
Alan's distinctive works evoke the landscapes of prominent Surrealist painters, but have a definite contemporary edge to them.
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 Alan King - Virtual gallery of the artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King was born in Greenwich, South East London, in February 1952.
Moving from a Pre-Fab in Deptford to New Cross at the age of about ten he could often be found loitering at the back of Goldsmiths College during the summer when the lectures were often held outside and he could get through a convenient hole in the fence from the railway embankment...
Alan King is an experienced artist who turned his attention to the use
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 Comedian, actor Alan King dies | lawrence.com
King brought his Brooklyn-rooted, suburb-bashing humor to a national audience during his 93 stints on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and countless other TV appearances.
King, who built a long comedy career in nightclubs and television that he later expanded to character acting on the silver screen, died Sunday in New York.
King's comedic calling came in his teens, and he quit school to learn his trade before "the monster with a thousand eyes" -- fickle audiences at Catskills hotels and seedy strip joints.
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 ABILITY Magazine | Alan King Interview
Alan King is spreading his fearless brand of comedy to a new crowd with a program called Laugh Well, which attempts to harness the healing qualities of laughter for hospital patients who are trying to overcome their own fears.
It's a technique Alan King found helpful himself while he was in the hospital for treatment of jaw cancer five years ago.
You are speaking to Alan King." He said "Why, that's remarkable." I said, " You think that's remarkable.
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 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Comedian Alan King Dies at 76 in New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Comedian and actor Alan King, a longtime fixture in Jewish humor, died at a New York hospital on Sunday aged 76, according to a local funeral home.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian and actor Alan King, a longtime fixture in Jewish humor, died at a New York hospital on Sunday aged 76, according to a local funeral home.
King once recounted a Jewish man asking his wife if she would like diamond jewelry, a new car or a trip for their anniversary.
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 FilmView - Alan King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alan King, the comedian, character actor, producer and author known for his wry observations on suburbia and life at large, died Sunday.
King discussed the nature of his art in a 1998 interview with Catherine Crier on her Fox News Crier Report: "Comedy is a reflection.
With his jut-jaw, take-charge stage persona, King was so cheeky that the first time he was introduced to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and she said, "How do you do, Mr.
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 Profiling Alan King
Alan is a very resourceful man, who has implemented creative solutions to provide himself the independence he needs as a multi-media artist.
Alan has invented several low-tech solutions for himself, including a unique front door control mechanism, a way to paint with his foot, and away to sign documents with a pen in his shoelace.
In this video clip, Alan is shown testifying at a hearing at DSHS against a proposal to change the funding rules for AAC devices.
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 The New York Times > Arts > Alan King, Comic With Chutzpah, Dies at 76
Alan King appeared at an awards show in New York City in January.
King was an unabashed exemplar of Jewish comedy, a through-and-through New Yorker whose sensibility, delivery and accent never migrated far from their Brooklyn roots.
King met Berle at the New York nightclub Leon and Eddie's, becoming the older comedian's protégé — and sometimes sharing dinner with him at Lindy's — while he was still a teenager.
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 King of Comedy Dies - May 10, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
May 10, 2004, 12:45 PM PT Alan King once griped--as was his shtick--that despite a long career in TV, film and nightclubs, he was considered cool by modern audiences only because he'd worked with Jackie Chan.
King's greatest performances arguably came in smoky rooms and concert halls, where he opened for the likes of Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra.
McKim called King a "transition comic," a funnyman who worked alongside the one-liner likes of Henny Youngman, but helped usher in the observational humor era of everybody from Robert Klein to Jerry Seinfeld.
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 Alan King
Alan King (December 26, 1927 - May 9, 2004), born Irwin Alan Kniberg, was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants.King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist.
King realized he had neglected his family and began spending more time at home.Throughout his life, King was deeply involved in charity work.
In the process of looking for her, the cat is a witness to other strange events, such as a smoker who is forced to quit his habit by a bizarre organization, and a man who is forced to play a deadly game on the ledge of a building.
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 Comedian Alan King holds court
Alan King gave his comedic take on the California recall in the media tent Saturday at the Bakersfield Business Conference.
King, who also is an author, actor, producer and TV personality, shared his views on aging.
King recalled a conversation he had with his mentor, George Burns, on Burns' 90th birthday.
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 IBM Research | | Alan J King
Alan King is a research staff member with the Mathematical Sciences department at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center, which he joined in 1988.
Alan joined IBM's Mathematics and Analytics Computation Center on Maiden Lane, NYC in 1996-7, and the Research VP for Strategy technical staff in 1998-9.
Alan is also Research's campus relationship manager for the University of Washington.
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 USATODAY.com - 50 fun-filled years from Alan King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Comedian Alan King, who transformed his Borscht Belt routine into a five-decade career in Hollywood and on Broadway, died Sunday of lung cancer in his native New York.
King was best known for his rantings about suburban life at a time when suburbia was still a new concept.
King was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, appearing on the latter 50-plus times.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-05-09-alan-king-obit_x.htm   (461 words)

  
 Alan King - Premiere Speaker Bureau - Motivational Speakers
Alan King is a comedian, actor, producer, author, TV personality, philanthropist, fashion entrepreneur, pro tennis tournament organizer, chairman of the board and political activist...
Conquering TV, he's had his own long-running show, 'Alan King: Inside The Comedy Mind' on HBO's Comedy Central, in which he interviewed comedians, actors etc., exploring their attitudes toward, and definition of, what makes comedy.
King closely follows politics and civil rights issues, always the champion of the maligned and oppressed, campaigned for John and Robert Kennedy and marched with Martin Luther King.
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